Box Garden

Box Garden

Useful Information

How to Get there

Along the Eucalypt Walk, between Ironbark and Peppermint 糖心影视. Take a left turn when leaving the Visitors聽Centre
Map

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Best Viewed

Spring
Look out for

A memorial sculpture made of a series of glass panels to commemorate the life and work of Kevin Taylor, a founding director of the landscape architects behind the design of the Australian Garden in Cranbourne.
Accessibility

No stairs or ramps, bumpy main path of natural stone paving, side path of compacted gravel on slight incline
Plant Census

Please note that the RBGV Living Collections Census is currently unavailable.

This聽section聽of the Eucalypt Walk聽was designed to display a wide range of tenacious and ornamental, low growing wildflowers and rockery plants.聽This approach has been refined and the Box聽Garden now supports two concepts; the top layer聽of dominant聽box eucalypts, the signature trees for this garden, and聽an聽understory聽dedicated to聽the highly significant聽flora of the Grampians region,聽an extensive plant聽display collected聽by the horticulture聽team聽over several field trips.聽

Many of these聽wild collected聽species are listed as threatened, enhancing the conservation value of this collection.聽
One of the most bio-diverse regions of Victoria, the Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) is home to one third of the state鈥檚 flora and is often called the 鈥楪arden of Victoria鈥�.聽
Box eucalypts all share the typical hard bark composed of short, tightly-held fibres.

Key Plants

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Holly Grevillea

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Showy Bauera

Bauera sessiliflora

Grampians Thryptomene

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<em>Eucalyptus bridgesiana</em>

This species displays the rough fibrous bark typical of box eucalypts and is a widespread species in the eastern half of NSW and Victoria.

Notes from the Curator

Mathieu Lascostes

Home to over 1000聽different聽species, the Grampians National Park provides sanctuary to 98 threatened plants, many of which聽are聽found聽nowhere else in聽Victoria.聽聽This聽Grampians collection is developed in聽close聽partnership聽with聽the WAMA project (Wildlife Art Museum of Australia) in Halls Gap, a great opportunity for both institutions to develop a coordinated multi-site conservation聽collection of聽the聽species聽at risk of聽extinction.聽Field trips are regularly聽organised聽by the聽Cranbourne聽horticulture team to collect plant material which is then propagated in our nursery. The聽field collection data and聽a sample specimen are then sent聽to the National Herbarium in Melbourne to be appropriately聽examined and catalogued.聽